You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
ROBERTO BOLANOThe secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it’s so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.
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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn’t really happy.
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If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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But every single damn thing matters! Only we don’t realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don’t realize that’s a lie.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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You run risks. That’s the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny’s whims.
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Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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